A report viewer is a component of the reporting tool that is used to view the finished report. All reporting tools Stimulsoft Reports contain viewers designed for using them under popular platforms.

Key features of these components are exporting to various formats, as well as sending reports by Email, severaldisplaying modes (single page, continuous, multiple pages), support for simple list, master-detail, hierarchical reports, sub-reports, interactive reports, reports with the grouping, charts, options, etc., tools to find occurrences in the report, the navigation bar, tabs.

The HTML5 Viewer is designed to view reports in the web browser. You do not need to install the .NET Framework, ActiveX components or any special plug-ins on the client side. All that is needed is any modern Web browser. With help of HTML5 Viewer, you can view, print and export reports on any computer with any operating system installed.Since the viewer only uses HTML and JavaScript technologies, it can be run on devices where there is no Flash or Silverlight support - tablets, smartphones. Also, the viewer supports Mobile and Touch interfaces, which automatically enable when using mobile devices and touch screen monitors. The viewer is supported on all platforms available in our products: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, JS, PHP, Java.

The Flash Viewer is designed to view reports in the web browser. You do not need to install the .NET Framework, ActiveX components or any special plug-ins on the client side. All that is needed a Web browser with Flash support. Flash Viewer supports many themes, animated interface, bookmarks, interactive reports, editing of report elements on the page, full screen mode, search panel, and other necessary features for viewing reports. Its distinctive feature is the speed of work and the same appearance of both the viewer itself, and viewed reports on any computer with any installed operating system. The viewer is on a large number of platforms: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, PHP, Java, Flex.

The Silverlight Viewer is used to display reports that are created on the base of the Silverlight technology. When using this component, reports are processed only by means of Silverlight. The web-server is not required. This report viewer requires Silverlight 4.0 or higher. One of the viewer features is that in Silverlight, when printing, the report is converted into an image and then printed. In Silverlight 5 printing of a report is available in the vector mode, without converting it to an image. For this, you need to have a PostScript printer and drivers which support it.

The WinForms Viewer is used to display reports on the WinForms platform. For displaying reports, their saving and printing GDI and GDI+ technologies are used. The component also supports the Dot-Matrix mode. It is printing reports on dot-matrix printers. .NET Framework 2.0 or higher is required to work with this viewer.

The WPF Viewer is used to display reports using the WPF technology. The distinguishing feature of this viewer is displaying reports with an excellent visual design, animation. And all this thanks to the WPF technology and themes of WPF. Printing reports also occurs by means of the WPF technology. .NET Framework 4.0 or higher is required for correct work of this viewer.

The UWP Viewer is developed for Windows 10. With this component, you can view reports on all devices running Windows 10. The viewer is used to display all types of reports using Universal Windows Platform (UWP).